{{Short description|Israeli politician (1890–1962)}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Avraham Granot 1940.jpg | caption = Granot in 1940 | birth_date = 18 June 1890 | birth_place = Fălești, Russian Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|7|5|1890|6|18|df=y}} | death_place = Jerusalem, Israel | office1 = Faction represented in the Knesset | suboffice1 = Progressive Party | subterm1 = 1949–1951 }}thumb|Avraham Granot 1945
'''Avraham Granot''' ({{langx|he|אברהם גרנות}}; 18 June 1890 – 5 July 1962) was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and a signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence.
==Biography== Granot was born Abraham Granovsky in Fălești, in the Beletsky Uyezd of the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (today Moldova) in 1890. After moving to Palestine in 1907 he attended Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv.<ref name=K>[https://main.knesset.gov.il/en/MK/APPS/mk/mk-print/352 Abraham Granot] Knesset</ref> In 1911 he started studying law and political economy at the University of Fribourg and University of Lausanne, graduating with a PhD in 1917.<ref name=K/>
In 1919 he began working for the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in the Hague, and was relocated to Jerusalem in 1922.<ref name=K/> He also lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on agrarian policy.<ref name=K/> In 1940 he was appointed director-general of the JNF.<ref name=K/>
Granot was a member of the New Aliyah Party and one of the signers of the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948. In 1949 he was elected to the first Knesset as a member of the Progressive Party (the successor of the New Aliyah Party). He was re-elected in 1951, but resigned from the Knesset six weeks after the election. He was head of several public corporations, and sat on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science.<ref>Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, edited by Raphael Patai, Herzl Press/McGraw-Hill, New York, 1971, pp 409–410</ref>
In 1960 Granot was elected chairman of the JNF Board of Directors.<ref name=K/>
==Commemoration== Neve Granot, a neighborhood in Jerusalem near the Israel Museum is named for him. The main street is Avraham Granot Street.<ref>[http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/pro/rehovot/rehovot.asp?STREET_KOD=1111 Information on street names in Jerusalem] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224201529/http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_sys/pro/rehovot/rehovot.asp?STREET_KOD=1111 |date=2008-12-24 }} Jerusalem Municipal Council website {{in lang|he}}</ref>
==Books (English)== *''Land Problems in Palestine'' (1926) *''Land Taxation in Palestine'' (1927) *''Land and the Jewish Reconstruction in Palestine'' (1931) *''The Fiscal System in Palestine'' (1952) *''Agrarian Reform and the Record of Israel'' (1956)
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==External links== {{Commons category|Avraham Granot}} * {{MKlink|id=352}} * The personal papers of Avraham Granot are kept at the [http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ZA/pMainE.aspx Central Zionist Archives] in Jerusalem. The notation of the record group is A202.
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